Improvement in safety



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORG CARL JULIUS SCHNEIDER, or ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENTJN SAFETY-MATCH COdROSITlONS.

Specification iornnng part of Letters Patent No. 157,873, dated December 15, 1874; application filed August 18, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORG C. J. SCHNEI- DER, of the city and county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Composition for Safety-Match, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description:

lhe ohieet of my improvement is to provide a safety nlrlor-match-f-one"which it is impossible to ignite without bringing the same in frictional contact with a rubber consistingof a composition especially provided for this purpose.

I am well aware that I am -not the first to invent a safety-match, as such a match .for the past quarter ot a centur has been well known in Europe, and is described in the Eucyclopedia Britannica published in 1857, and is commonly known as the Swedish match.

The advautagooi my improvement is found, first, in its simplicity, and, second, in the fact that, 1 accomplish the result-s aimed to be attained by the use of fewer and cheaper ingrei dients, and bytbe omission of any ingredients whh h would permit the match to be nite'd exceptthrough direct frictional contact with a rubber, such as bol'm'c referred to.

To more clearly illustrate my ll|l[ )l'0\'cll'l8lll3 or the nature of my invention, as well as its advantage over the Swedish match, 1 would state that the compound used consists simply of starch, water, brick-dust, chlorate of potassa, golden sulplnu'ot of antimony, aiid flow-- crs of sulphur, whilethe Swedish match cons of the following ingredients, viz., glue, starch, om arabie, chlorate of potassa, chromate of potassa, powdered glass, sulphuret of black antimony, oxide of iron, sulphur-flow- |l'. '.'flil(l water. Now, in this Swedish comound tlu- I-hromato o2 potassa and sulphnrot ol' antimony, combining with the chlorate of ootnssa, cause the Swedish match ,easily to :gnih by friction on a smooth surface, alittle in-at being sullioir-nt to cause its ignition. With my composition, there being no such ftillll llllilflii of ingredients, all dangcr-of-sueh parts of flowers of sulphur.

accidental and undesirable ignition is prevented; and theobjeetion herein stated ap plies with equal force to J. W. Hjerpes pat-- before referred to,

The construction and operation of my invension are as follows: I take five (5) parts of 'starclntbrty-two (42) parts of water, sixteen (16) parts of brick-dust, thirty-two (32) parts of chlorate of potassa, three (3) parts of golden sulphuret of antimony, and two (2) These I thoroughly combine so as to'form a composition.

The wooden portion of. the matches having been prepared, the conn'iosition'is applied by any suitable means.

\Vhile practical experience has demonstrated that the foregoing formula and prormrtions are adn'iirably adapted for the purpose designed, still I desire it understood that I do not limit myself to the exact proportions stated, as these may be varied without in the slightest degree ali'ecting the object of my in vention.

The rubber which I propose to use consists of a composition of starch, amorphous phosphorus, water, and sulphnret of black. anti mon y. This composition forms no part of my present invention, as it is to be the distinctive subject-matter of an independent application.

What 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

A composition for safety "parlor-matches, consisting of brick-dust, chlorate of potassa, golden sulphuret of antimony, flowers of sulphur, starch. and water, as herciiibefore'described. I

in testimony whereof, I have signed. my

. name to this specification in'the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORG- CAR-L JULIUS SCHNEIDER Witnesses:

Jon): Donor-1, Jr., EDWARD tiarronn 

